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19:30, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
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{{#statements: }}
to get formatted data. You can also use {{#property: }}
to get raw data. You
can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua.
[10]Problems
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20:33, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
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live
option for the Tipsy notice tool has been removed. Gadgets and user scripts which use it need to be updated.
[15]Problems
about:config
in the address bar and set network.cookie.maxPerHost
to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox.
[16]Changes this week
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19:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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{{PAGELANGUAGE}}
. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators.
[19]<chem>
to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <ce>
. <ce>
should be replaced by <chem>
.
[21]#wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; }
You can change the number 50
to make it look like you want to.
[23]Meetings
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23:24, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
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20:15, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
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18:45, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
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19:45, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
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18:06, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
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type
and peers
. The type
option solves this problem. You can use peers
to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about
type and
peers.
[43]Meetings
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19:25, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
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<chem>
to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor.
[46]Meetings
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19:56, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
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23:23, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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<references />
tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use <references />
tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists.
[56]
[57]Meetings
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15:25, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Save page
button now says Publish page
or Publish changes
on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page
is when you save a new page and Publish changes
when you edit an existing page.
[61]Page information
in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API.
[63]Problems
Changes this week
Ctrl
+Shift
+X
on PCs or Cmd
+Shift
+X
on Macs.
[67]Meetings
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22:03, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
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14:46, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Save page
button now says Publish page
or Publish changes
on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page
is when you save a new page and Publish changes
when you edit an existing page.
[71]Problems
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Future changes
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17:53, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
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18:35, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
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?safemode=1
to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal
CSS and
JavaScript. Example: /info/en/?search=Literature?safemode=1
. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them.
[80][[File:Wiki.png]]
. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see
how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way.
[82]Problems
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19:32, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
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16:40, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
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Recent changes
mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' )
block for your scripts also, or add mediawiki.util
dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in
MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition.
[92]
[93]Problems
Changes this week
Meetings
Future changes
Publish changes
, Show preview
and Show changes
buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the
OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding &ooui=1
to the URL.
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19:50, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
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Problems
Hide categorization of pages
in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent
in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from
Special:EditWatchlist/raw.
[96]Changes this week
Visual editing
and Source editing
instead of Switch to visual editing
and Switch to code editing
. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using.
[98]Meetings
Future changes
-{
is used in
transclusions or
web addresses it has to be
escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{
for transclusions and %2D{
in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use -{
in a template: {{1x| sad :-{ face }}
. This is because of some code fixes to the
preprocessor and affects all wikis.
[101]
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02:25, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
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Recent changes
Problems
mediawiki.util
library does not load automatically any more. Your
Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ).done(function(){
as the first line in the file and });
as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the
2017/18 issue.
[105]Changes this week
Future changes
-{
is used in
transclusions or
web addresses it has to be
escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{
for transclusions and %2D{
in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the
preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see
the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find
false positives. You can
read more about what to fix.
[109]
[110]Older unreported changes
__NOGLOBAL__
to your Meta user page to stop this.
[111]
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21:48, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes this week
<div>
tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext
parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can
report new problems you think are related to this.
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22:14, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
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12:18, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
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19:04, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
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&fuzzy=1
to the end of the web address when looking at
Special:Undelete.
[132]
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15:29, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
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irc.wikimedia.org
has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down.
[135]Special:PageData
will be an entry point for machine-readable page data.
[136]Meetings
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15:44, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
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18:07, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
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19:30, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
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Recent changes
{{#statements: }}
to get formatted data. You can also use {{#property: }}
to get raw data. You
can see the difference between the two statements. There are also similar new functions in Lua.
[10]Problems
Changes this week
Meetings
Future changes
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20:33, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
live
option for the Tipsy notice tool has been removed. Gadgets and user scripts which use it need to be updated.
[15]Problems
about:config
in the address bar and set network.cookie.maxPerHost
to 5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox.
[16]Changes this week
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19:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
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{{PAGELANGUAGE}}
. It returns the language of the page you are at. This can be used on wikis with more than one language to make it easier for translators.
[19]<chem>
to write chemical formulas. Before you could use <ce>
. <ce>
should be replaced by <chem>
.
[21]#wpTextbox1 { height: 50em; }
You can change the number 50
to make it look like you want to.
[23]Meetings
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23:24, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
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20:15, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
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18:45, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
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19:45, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
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18:06, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
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Recent changes
Changes this week
type
and peers
. The type
option solves this problem. You can use peers
to create gadgets with more than one style module. Read more about
type and
peers.
[43]Meetings
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19:25, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Changes this week
<chem>
to write chemical formulas in the visual editor. Previously this only worked in the wikitext editor.
[46]Meetings
Future changes
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19:56, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
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Clarification
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23:23, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes this week
<references />
tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use <references />
tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists.
[56]
[57]Meetings
Future changes
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15:25, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Save page
button now says Publish page
or Publish changes
on the Wikimedia wikis except for Wikipedias and Wikinewses. This change will come to Wikipedias later. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page
is when you save a new page and Publish changes
when you edit an existing page.
[61]Page information
in the sidebar. Developers can also get monthly page views through the API.
[63]Problems
Changes this week
Ctrl
+Shift
+X
on PCs or Cmd
+Shift
+X
on Macs.
[67]Meetings
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22:03, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
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14:46, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Save page
button now says Publish page
or Publish changes
on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately. Publish page
is when you save a new page and Publish changes
when you edit an existing page.
[71]Problems
Changes this week
Meetings
Future changes
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17:53, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
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18:35, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
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Recent changes
?safemode=1
to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal
CSS and
JavaScript. Example: /info/en/?search=Literature?safemode=1
. This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them.
[80][[File:Wiki.png]]
. If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see
how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way.
[82]Problems
Changes this week
Meetings
Future changes
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19:32, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
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16:40, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' )
block for your scripts also, or add mediawiki.util
dependency in gadget ResourceLoader section in
MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition.
[92]
[93]Problems
Changes this week
Meetings
Future changes
Publish changes
, Show preview
and Show changes
buttons will look slightly different. This is to fit with the
OOUI look. Users can test scripts, gadgets and so on to see if they work with the new interface by adding &ooui=1
to the URL.
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19:50, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Hide categorization of pages
in your watchlist preferences. You can turn off Expand watchlist to show all changes, not just the most recent
in your watchlist preferences. You can remove problematic categories from
Special:EditWatchlist/raw.
[96]Changes this week
Visual editing
and Source editing
instead of Switch to visual editing
and Switch to code editing
. This is because it was confusing when the menu said you could switch to the editor you were already using.
[98]Meetings
Future changes
-{
is used in
transclusions or
web addresses it has to be
escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{
for transclusions and %2D{
in web addresses. A transclusion could for example be when you use -{
in a template: {{1x| sad :-{ face }}
. This is because of some code fixes to the
preprocessor and affects all wikis.
[101]
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02:25, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
Problems
mediawiki.util
library does not load automatically any more. Your
Special:MyPage/common.js may use it. If you have technical problems that started a couple of weeks ago you can try adding mw.loader.using( 'mediawiki.util' ).done(function(){
as the first line in the file and });
as a last one. Tech News wrote about this in the
2017/18 issue.
[105]Changes this week
Future changes
-{
is used in
transclusions or
web addresses it has to be
escaped appropriately. You can use -<nowiki/>{
for transclusions and %2D{
in web addresses. This is because of some code fixes to the
preprocessor and affects all wikis. You can now see
the full list of wikis with this problem and help fix them to avoid that things break later this month. You might find
false positives. You can
read more about what to fix.
[109]
[110]Older unreported changes
__NOGLOBAL__
to your Meta user page to stop this.
[111]
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21:48, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes this week
<div>
tag around HTML from the MediaWiki wikitext
parser. Gadgets with code that does not follow recommendations could have problems with this. You can
report new problems you think are related to this.
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22:14, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
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12:18, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
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19:04, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
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&fuzzy=1
to the end of the web address when looking at
Special:Undelete.
[132]
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15:29, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Changes this week
irc.wikimedia.org
has to be rebooted. This will probably happen on 21 June. It may be postponed. Some tools use this to get the recent changes feed. They will not work when it is down.
[135]Special:PageData
will be an entry point for machine-readable page data.
[136]Meetings
Future changes
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15:44, 19 June 2017 (UTC)